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Warhammer space marines 2

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 20:27

does anyone else have an issue with space marines just maxing out gpu usage no matter what when the game is loading? i have the recommended specs and even lowed the graphical quality but it just wont go below 98% gpu utilization, any tips would be appreciated.

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Really Nooby Question, but How do I get FSR 4 in Cyberpunk?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 20:07

Howdy all!

I recently set up a new install of Arch, and I wanted to play cyberpunk again. I have a 9070xt, and I wanted to take advantage of FSR4 in cyberpunk. I own the game through GOG, so I installed Heroic(Installed as a flatpak) and installed it there. All of my packages are up to date, and I am using the built in GE version of Proton.

I can't seem to find the option to enable FSR4 in-game. I know that on Windows, you need to use Adrenaline in a lot of games to get FSR4 to work. How can I get it without Adrenaline? I really don't wanna use Optiscaler, as it feels a bit Janky and I'd rather use the native implementation.

I got really lazy and asked Gemini, but it told me to enable some launch options which appear to not exist? Or that I need to define myself?

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how can I run vassal game engine on wayland natively without xwayland?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 20:00

conversely, is there a way to make sure that only particular apps run on xwayland and not others?

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PS4 controller detective button problem on Batman Arkham City GOTY POP OS 22.04

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 19:44

Hey everyone,

I have installed Batman Arkham City GOTY via steam, with Nexus mod (HD texture pack) installed. I am using PS4 dual shock controller to play the game. For some reason the detecive vision button (LB) on controller is not bringing up the detective vision, it was working briefly when I started playing the game a few months back but had to stop playing after first mission. Now returning back the detective vision doesnt work on Controller. But it works on Keyboard mapped to 'X' key.

Anyhelp is appreciated. I dont have any exclusive software for control is installed.

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I finally figured out how to get Lutris to install Battle.net

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 19:37

I know many of you have simply been able to get it running "straight out of the box". But that hasn't been my experience at all. No matter what I did, both Lutris and Bottles could NOT install bnet properly. The installers would always crash no matter what runner they came with by default that I used. It just wasn't happening. And even on the rare occasion when it would actually install completely, bnet would launch to some "unspecified error" which would mean 75% of its UI was just straight up missing (which included the ability to install or download any bnet games).

I did eventually get it running by simply using Steam and the Proton runner it uses. But I wanted to run bnet from outside of Steam to avoid the double layer so to speak. Thus my focus became Lutris which IMO is better than Bottles.

It did not matter which distro I used. I tried basically all the current popular ones (Cachy, Bazzite, Nobara, Fedora, Ubuntu etc). They all yielded the exact same result.

Note: This is entirely a non-CLI solution. I'm a Linux newbie and the amount of incorrect syntax for CLI commands on the web is obscene to say the least. So if it's not in the GUI, I don't want to hear about it.

Now onto the solution:

  1. Install Lutris. It's available in basically every repo out there.
  2. The problem with both Lutris and Bottles is the runners they come with. None of them work for bnet. This is where "ProtonPlus" comes in. Do whatever it is you need to do to get it installed. For K/Ubuntu users, that was enabling the "Flathub" repo as the default Ubuntu repos do not have ProtonPlus. No idea why as you'd think it would be something Ubuntu of all distros would have, but there you go.
  3. Open ProtonPlus and look for the top result "Proton-GE". Some guides on the web tell you go install the "Proton-Tkg" version. Do not do this. It will not work. Use the "Proton-GE" version. Install the "Latest" version under "Proton-GE".
  4. Now open Lutris and click on the "3 lines" icon (whatever happened to the days of a button named "Menu"?) and then click "Preferences". Then click "Runners" on the left-hand menu.
  5. Scroll down in the right-hand panel until you see "Wine - Runs Windows games". Click the settings icon on the right. This will open a new window. At the top next to "Wine version", click the drop-down list and select "Proton-GE Latest". Then click the "save" button in the top right. This drop-down list is basically where all the runners you downloaded via ProtonPlus will appear.
  6. It's at this point you've layed all the ground-work necessary to get bnet to successfully install and run without erroring out.
  7. Go through the usual method of searching for the bnet installer in Lutris and install it!

I'm sure there's a far more efficient way to do this via CLI, but as I said, I'm basically CLI illeterate as a new Windows refugee and almost everything I came across online has syntax errors that someone like me would not know how to correct for when simply copy/pasting. I found a lot of websites change the text formatting on CLI commands such that when you try to use them, they simply don't work. You'd think the authors of such websites would realise this, but apparently not.

Anywho, I leave this here for anyone else who has such issues with bnet in the future. Have fun.

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ReShade UI not opening

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 19:31

I used kevinlekiller's script to install ReShade for Cyberpunk 2077. I followed all the instructions perfectly and cannot get the UI to open in game. I saw that some others had the same issue on GitHub and was wondering if there was a fix.

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NaK GUI Release 3.0.0

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 19:16

Hi friends, it's been a little bit since I posted here but I will provide my changelog of this new release.

And just a short bit of information, NaK is a modding helper for MO2 as of right now.

Changes:

Release is based on an AppImage file type. If anyone knows how to reduce bloat please let me know lol.

Removal of Vortex, and Limo. I removed Vortex in the hopes that NMA will be adding other game support. And Limo has been removed due to the lack of updates as I'm getting mo2 somewhat feature complete like it is on windows.

Fully automated setups, what this means is now when you go to download or add an existing mo2 to steam. It will add it to steam, automatically set the proton tool to your default one, create the steam prefix for you, automatically load the dependencies, and restart steam! This is to try and make the whole process as smooth as possible for the user.

Removal of game specific info. I found out how to let users load FNV and Enderal without having the compactdata command, and it should apply the fixes automatically when setting up an existing mo2 install. (I haven't had really any testers, so this might be broken)

Revamped NXM Handler. NXM handler should not work when not having mo2 open and while its open and it should be way more consistent across the board.

Synthesis no longer needs a cert anymore I'm like 99% sure, and dotnet9sdk installing has been fixed for flatpak protontricks users.

I might remove setup dependencies at some point, but I'm not sure yet.

One final note, I don't have many testers to help with pre-releases so there may be issues.

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Controller trigger issues with Hollow Knight, Steam, and 8BitDo

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 19:16

I've recently started playing Hollow Knight on Steam with an 8BitDo Ultimate 2.4G controller, and I'm running into issues with RT (which is used to dash in the game). I'm not sure what part of the chain is my issue.

Basically, RT is very unreliable for triggering the dash for me. If I jump and press the dash button, sometimes it will work exactly how I wanted but other times I can bottom out and fully release RT 2-4 times before it finally dashes. If I put the controller away and use keyboard, dash always works as I expect it to. I've been using the 2.4GHz dongle connected in the charging dock and the switch in the back of the controller is on X instead of D.

I switched over to Windows and edited two profiles using 8BitDo's software - one which has RT and LT register as 100% very early on and one that uses the back paddle buttons as LT and RT. When I use the hardwaretester website in Linux, I can see that those two profiles did save to the controller. However, when I play the game, I'm not seeing any differences.

When I try to change the controller mapping through the game, the remap just doesn't seem to register. I can select the button I want to remap, but then no buttons I press seem to do anything and I have to use my mouse to reset to default.

The other buttons seem to be reliable, but this is also the only time I'm really needing to use the trigger.

If I could make it so dash happens as soon as I begin pressing RT or switch it to something like one of the back paddles in the game, that would be great. But I can't seem to figure any of it out. I'd appreciate any help.

My specs are:

Arch Linux, KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4, Kernel Version: 6.16.4-arch1-1 (64-bit), Graphics Platform: Wayland

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Overwatch screen freezes needing a full system reboot to do anything

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 19:11

I've been having this problem ever since I've switched to linux and wanted to know if anyone found a fix for it I'm currently using proton 9.0-4

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GPU Screen Recorder is Amazing

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 19:08

Since forever, I have been a huge OBS fan, standing by it damn near religiously. But then after OBS wouldn't work right, I tried GPU Screen Recorder and it's genuinely so amazing. So simple, yet it works flawlessly. And the ALT+Z shortcut is so useful. It's literally an OSS clone of NVIDIA's overlay, but the difference is that it is far less intrusive. And the recording quality is very very good. 10/10, absolutely recommend to anyone looking for screen recording.

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Jurassic world evolution 2 crashes

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 18:43

It is on heroic games launcher I have tried multiple proton and wine versions

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Streaming video & audio from Xbox series X to laptop

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 18:15

Is there any way to stream just video and audio from the Xbox Series X to my Linux laptop? I would like the controller to still be connected directly to the console, and for my television screen to be mirrored to the laptop (with audio included).

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Rdr 2 crash on debían 13

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 17:45

Hello folks Config Laptop Dell Rtx 3050 I7 Well I’m going to be short about it, I spend a lot of time trying to set rdr before I can play, because of a seems to be common issue, crash before 20 mins, automatic close the game by it self, simply didn’t open because of rockstar. Well I few some steps on internet but no one are my specific problem, well I apt update and chec an specific comand with gpt, a script to execute the game from console, but in a lower resolution, (just check which resolution works better for you) If this didn’t work, try updating vulkan, I try dx12 but I just give my self more headache. If this didn’t work, go and check the specific graphic card u have. When you have this thing ready get the driver in my case 580.xxx.xxx, apt update And don’t forgot to set in console your graphic card to execute when you open steam, this requires you to have Optimus, some laptops use integrated graphics and dedicated, just set able to use both of them. Those are the steps not in order I follow to set rdr2 to ply comfortable in my set up. Note, if the game keep crashing after few minutes, go to desktop few times and open again the rdr2 window. Thank you I hope u folks can solve that in debían trixie.

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GTA IV not using Dedicated GPU.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 17:19

I'm using an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 Gaming Laptop, which has an Nvidia RTX 3060 Laptop GPU and an AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Processor with Radeon 680M Graphics. Other Steam games seem to use Dedicated GPU just fine, but Grand Theft Auto IV in particular is not using dedicated graphics. I am using the FusionFix and DXVK mods, but the problem exists even without those mods. These are my launch options for the game: %command% -availablevidmem 6144 -fullspecaudio -forcehighqualitymirrors -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -forcer2vb

The game uses my iGPU instead of my dGPU no matter what I do. So far I have tried:

  • Running the game with prime-run
  • Running the game with __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%

Neither of these seem to make a difference. In all cases, according to nvtop, the Rockstar Launcher itself is launched with the dedicated GPU, but the actual game is launched with the integrated GPU, and I have no idea how to solve it. I have spent several hours looking for solutions to this online, but have been unable to find anything.

Additional info: - NVidia Driver version: 580.82.07 - Distro: Arch Linux - Window Manager: Hyprland 0.50.1

Any help in solving this will be immensely appreciated. Thank you in advance!

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Found an amusing video for the windows users still on the fence about switching.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 17:15

Lots of options, people should share it on subsequent "find me a distro" posts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5rdiwP8l4Y

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Im trying to play portal two, the steam fps counter says its 60 fps yet it feels more like 30 with small hitches to like 15 fps

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 16:38

Im using cachyos, gtx 1050, this also happens in hollow knight though its not as slow

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Cronos: The New Dawn Windows vs Linux Comparison

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. September 2025 - 16:24

Hey guys,

i made a little comparison video on my machine running Nobara 42 and Windows 11 with current RADV drivers. Excuse the trashy editing of the video, this was my first time using recording and editing tools on Linux. The Game runs fine out of the box using Proton Experimental. Performance is on on par or slightly better on windows. AFAIK there are no optimized drivers for this game on both sides.

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